[from Greek `akme', highest point of
perfection or achievement] The canonical supplier of bizarre,
elaborate, and non-functional gadgetry - where Rube Goldberg and
Heath Robinson (two cartoonists who specialized in elaborate
contraptions) shop. The name has been humorously expanded as A (or
American) Company Making Everything. (In fact, Acme was a real
brand sold from Sears Roebuck catalogs in the early 1900s.)
Describing some X as an "Acme X" either means "This is
insanely great", or, more likely, "This looks insanely great on paper, but in practice it's really easy to shoot yourself
in the foot with it." Compare pistol.

This term, specially cherished by American hackers and explained
here for the benefit of our overseas brethren, comes from the
Warner Brothers' series of "Roadrunner" cartoons. In these
cartoons, the famished Wile E. Coyote was forever attempting to
catch up with, trap, and eat the Roadrunner. His attempts usually
involved one or more high-technology Rube Goldberg devices -
rocket jetpacks, catapults, magnetic traps, high-powered
slingshots, etc. These were usually delivered in large wooden
crates labeled prominently with the Acme name - which, probably
not by coincidence, was the trade name of the animation rotation
board used by cartoonists since forever. Acme devices invariably
malfunctioned in improbable and violent ways.

A 6502 crossassembler from Smørbrød Software (Marco Baye), distributed under GPL. It is portable and runs on various platforms (*NIX, MS-DOS, AmigaOS, OS/2 and RISC OS, the original platform where it was written on). It supports many kinds of 6502 variants (6502, 65c02, 65816 - though it will not produce files bigger than 64k!), and supports for illegal opcodes are being worked on.

It appears to be very well-featured: it allows complicated preprocessing (conditional and looping code, inclusion of other source files and binaries, math parsing), supports global and local labels, and has powerful macro support. It also appears to support position-independent code (but will not make linkable objects - hmmmm). It also seems to have ASCII-to-PETSCII/screencodes conversion built in. And, according to the hype, it is also fast.